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Ammi-saduqa

Ammi-saduqa, also known as Ammizaduqa, was the penultimate king of Babylon's First Dynasty, reigning c. 1646–1626 BC and issuing a debt-cancellation edict whose nearly complete text survives.

Amminadab I of Ammon

Amminadab I was a king of Ammon in the mid-seventh century BC, attested in Assyrian records as a tribute-paying vassal, ruling from Rabbat-Ammon, modern Amman, Jordan.

Amminadab II of Ammon

Amminadab II was a king of Ammon in the later seventh century BCE, known only from the Tall Siran bronze bottle, which names him as son of King Hissal'el.

Ammistamru I

Ammistamru I, also known as Ammittamru I, was a Bronze Age king of Ugarit on the Syrian coast, subordinate to Egypt's Amenophis III and father of Niqmaddu II.

Ammistamru II

Ammistamru II, also written Ammittamru II, was king of Ugarit in western Syria in the mid-13th century BC, known for his divorce from the daughter of Benteshina of Amurru.

Ammit

Ammit (Ammut, ꜥm-mwt, "devourer of the dead") was the composite crocodile-lion-hippopotamus being who ate the hearts of the unjustified dead at the Egyptian Weighing of the Heart; she had no cult.

Ammitaqum

Ammitaqum, also written Ammitakum, was a king of Alalakh, modern Tell Atchana in Turkey, who ruled in the seventeenth century BC as the last attested king of the Level VII dynasty.

Ammonite inscriptions

Ammonite inscriptions are the written record of the Iron Age kingdom of Ammon in the Transjordan, mostly seals dating from the ninth to fifth centuries BC.

Ammonite language

Ammonite is the Canaanite language of the Iron Age kingdom of Ammon, centered on Rabbat 'Ammān (modern Amman, Jordan), attested from the 9th to the 5th centuries BCE.

Ammonite revolt against Babylon

The Ammonite revolt against Babylon was a 594/593 BC conspiracy in which an Ammonite king joined envoys of Edom, Moab, Tyre, and Sidon plotting against Nebuchadnezzar II.

Ammu (pharaoh)

Ammu, also known as Aahotepre, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, conventionally the fourth king of the 14th Dynasty, known only from scarab seals and dated around 1760 to 1745 BC.

Ammuladdin

Ammuladdin, also known as Ammuladi, was a king of the Qedarites, an Arab tribal polity, who joined raids on Assyria's western provinces around 652 BC and was repulsed by the Moabites.

Ammuna

Ammuna was a king of the Hittite Old Kingdom, dated around 1550–1530 BC, who succeeded Zidanta I and was succeeded by Huzziya I, whose accession followed the murder of Ammuna's probable sons and heirs.

Ammunira

Ammunira of Biruta was the ruler of Beirut, called Biruta in the letters, in the mid-14th century BCE, known only from letters he wrote to the pharaohs preserved in the Amarna archive.

Ammurapi

Ammurapi, also known as Amurapi, was the last king of Ugarit, reigning from 1215 BC until the kingdom fell around 1190–1185 BC during the Late Bronze Age collapse.

Amoashtart

Amoashtart was a royal woman of Sidon in the Persian period, priestess of Astarte and mother of King Eshmunazar II, known from his sarcophagus inscription (KAI 14).

Amorite language

Amorite is an extinct Northwest Semitic language spoken by the Amorites of the Syrian steppe, known almost entirely from proper names in Akkadian cuneiform texts.

Amorite migrations into Mesopotamia

The Amorite migrations into Mesopotamia were the movements of West Semitic-speaking groups, called Amurru in cuneiform texts, into Mesopotamia around the 21st and 20th centuries BC.

Amorites

Amorites (Akkadian amurru, Sumerian MAR.TU): West Semitic-speaking peoples of the Syrian steppe who dominated Syro-Mesopotamia in the early second millennium BCE, founded dynasties at Babylon, Mari, and Yamhad-Aleppo, and appear in the Hebrew Bible as pre-Israelite inhabitants of Palestine.

Amran Tablets

The Amran Tablets are Sabaean bronze dedicatory plaques from the temple of Almaqah of Hirrān at ʿAmrān, Yemen, dated by palaeography to the fourth to first centuries BC.

Amri-Nal culture

The Amri-Nal culture, also called the Amri or Nal culture, is an Early Harappan Chalcolithic culture of Sindh and Balochistan, Pakistan, known for its painted pottery.

Amun

Amun (Imen, "the hidden one"), also Amon or Amun-Re, was the ancient Egyptian creator and air god of Thebes who rose to king of the gods in the New Kingdom, centered at Karnak, with consort Mut and son Khonsu.

Amun-her-khepeshef (son of Ramesses II)

Amun-her-khepeshef, also known as Amun-her-khepsef, was the firstborn son of Pharaoh Ramesses II, who served as an army general and overseer of the chariotry and was buried in tomb KV5 in the Valley of the Kings.

Amun-her-khepeshef (son of Ramesses III)

Amun-her-khepeshef, also written Amenherkhepshef, was a prince of Egypt's 20th Dynasty, a son of Ramesses III, buried in tomb QV55 in the Valley of the Queens.

Amunet

Amunet (Amaunet, Jmn.t), ancient Egyptian goddess, feminine counterpart of Amun in the Hermopolitan Ogdoad and a Theban consort of Amun; wears the Red Crown, later superseded by Mut, fused with Neith, worshipped into the Ptolemaic period.

Amurru (kingdom)

Amurru, also known as the Kingdom of Amurru, was a Late Bronze Age kingdom in western Syria and northern Lebanon, at times a Hittite vassal.

Amurru defection to the Hittites

The Amurru defection to the Hittites was King Aziru's abandonment of Egyptian overlordship for a vassal treaty with Šuppiluliuma I of Hatti, costing Egypt its main foothold on the northern Levantine coast.

Amut-pi'el II

Amut-pi'el II, also known as Amut-Pi-El, was a king of Qatna, a Middle Bronze Age kingdom in western Syria at Tall Mišrife, who reigned around 1720–1700 BC.

Amyrtaeus of Sais

Amyrtaeus of Sais (Greek Amyrtaios) was a prince of the Delta city of Sais who, invested as king of Egypt, joined Inaros in the rebellion against Persian king Artaxerxes I around 460 BC.

Amytis (daughter of Astyages)

Amytis was, according to the Greek historian Ctesias, a daughter of Astyages, the last king of the Medes, and later a wife of Cyrus the Great.